6 weeks after my wife gave birth to our 2nd child and I’m back in the saddle again 
However, I’m realizing that one of the things I missed from the baby stage of our first (he’s 2 so it’s not too far back) is the taste of breast milk. I usually get a little when my wife and I are fooling around.
I have had one person ask if I had ever tasted breast milk and their jaws just dropped when I told them I like it. Is it me? Or are there others out there who enjoy a little nectar of the teat?
Does it taste like cantaloupe juice?
*::Throws up::
::Makes vow to ignore TMI threads from now on::*
I’ve never had it, being a girl. Except for the first couple years, ya know.
But I really don’t think it’s that gross-seeming. Why the visceral reaction, Strainger? It’s weird, yeah. But I’m not pukin’…
So, what does it taste like?
::Squirts huge bottle of breast milk all over Strainger::
Having never had cantelope juice, I can’t confirm that the writers of Friends know what they’re talking about.
It seems to be thicker than a normal juice, but not quite as thick as store milk. The taste is hard to explain. It’s kinda sweet and rich to the point that even just a little bit causes the flavour to completely take over your mouth.
You ever have something that was so rich that, even though you didn’t have much of it, you could still taste it a day later?
I’m usually better at describing things but, suffice to say, breast milk has a unique flavour.
Now the question is: Does all breast milk taste the same? I don’t think my wife would like me going around to find out 
I had made a post previously curious about the taste of breastmilk. I was also curious about why we drink cow’s milk when theoretically human milk would be a lot more nutrionally appropriate. Some dopers commented that it tasted sweeter than regular milk; it lead me to think it would go very well with coffee, maybe a decent substitute for evaporated milk in recipies as well!
As far as it being gross, I think thats related to personal taboos about body fluids. We consume our own body fluids all the time- prick your finger and you lick the blood off for example. But consuming other people’s body fluids is ‘gross’.
LMAO!!
I just have an image of herding a crowd of wet nurses into a dairy processing plant.
I used to ummm… suck on the teat after my son was born. I can’t remember what it taste like but it must have been really good cause it became part of our ritual. My wife really enjoyed me doing it too.
I’m not alone. Yay!!
Thanks Amp.
I had it when, after warming up a bottle of pumped milk for my son, I splashed some on my inner wrist to make sure it wasn’t too hot, then tasted it. It tasted rather like a protein shake to me. Not my cuppa, really.
I can assure you that the breast milk of different women tastes very different.
No, I’m not some perv. In fact, until you mentioned it, I’d never even realized that my experiences were unusual. Well, I recognized them at the moment (it’d have been hard not to) but I never connected the dots. Or if I did, I repressed it)
As a kid, I tasted my mother’s milk, both directly, and when stored for my younger sister. (Oddly, I still don’t recall what my mother’s milk tasted like, probably because I’d had little to compare it to). As a child, I must confess I sampled breast milk I’d encounter in other people’s fridges too. Only as an adult did I realize how creepy this was, as a child, I considered it a ‘privacy misdemeanor’, like when you’re at the ‘help yourself to soda’ level of friendship, and you find a type of cheese you’ve never tried. Sure, you should ask before sampling - but it’s a relatively minor breach of ettiquette to a kid.
Damn, I hope none of my friend’s moms are reading this now. How do you apologize for that? On the other hand, I’ve found that moms have a far more sensible attitude to these things than dads
As an adult, I’m the guy who’s known for eating “anything” (brains, blood, bugs, and other delicacies of other cultures. Given the story above, I don’t suppose you’re surprised). More than once, I’ve been dared to taste breast milk by a grossed-out hubby (we men are disgusting, aren’t we?) – and I’ve been asked to taste breast milk “to see if it tastes normal”. This isn’t bad when it’s a patient, but can be varying degrees of creepy when it’s for a friend ot their spouse
[Here’s a hint: if you ever find yourself saying “It’s okay. You’re a doctor,” forget it. If I think it’s creepy, it probably isn’t part of my training and duties. Your remark is the sdemantic equivalent of your husband’s childish dare: “You wuss! You’re not doctor enough to taste my breast milk! Let’s dress you in a nurse’s uniform and call all your friends at the state medical association.” You wouldn’t ask a doctor friend for an impromptu pelvic, would you?]
Breast milk not only varies, but it has a sort of ineffable complexity. You have to root around in the mix of tastes to find a common theme that you can label ‘human milk’. (Then again I feel similarly about wine, cheese scotch and cigars) I can easily imagine its hardwired into us, more deeply than ordinary scent. Our olfactory genes (scent supplies the fine details of taste) are derivatives of our immune system genes, and are widely used by other mammals to detect related individuals, members of the tribe, etc. And let’s not even get into the VNO and pheromones.
There’s actually a fair amount of medical literature on the effect of diet and other conditions on breast milk. Given how many factors influence the taste and/or odor of our other bodily secretions, I’d have been surprised if there wasn’t a major effect. Human diet is far more variegated than any other mammal - except our companion species like dogs and rats.
Gah. Now you know why I don’t post much.
"Of course, it tastes like melons! Where do you think it comes from?"
I don’t know that it tastes like cantelope juice but hopefully the packaging is somewhat similar.
A friend of mine described it as tasting like melted vanilla icecream, the good stuff (full fat, natural ingredients). That was hers, anyway.
My son has told me it just tastes like milk (cow’s, that is). Having had ‘real’ cow’s milk (fresh from the cow), it is rather a lot closer to that flavor and mouth feel, I suspect. Fresh whole milk from pasture-grazed cows, just ‘cool enough to drink’, is a truly lovely food experience, unlike cold refrigerated pateurized homoginized factory farm milk from cows with uniform diet. I’ve never had a mouthful of my own, though. Can’t really compare.
I regularly suckled when my daughter was still breastfeeding (no, not her on the left, me on the right – I mean during the months our baby was breastfeeding), and my wife enjoyed it very much.
The baby wasn’t very good at feeding so my wife was often left with painful engorgements, which I was happy to help her relieve. Also, it soothed my wife’s nipples because I was gentler than the baby.
And we both found it to be an extreme turn-on. I’m looking forward to doing it again when we have the second kid. I have a sweet tooth and breast milk is very sweet.